I love Halloween, don't get me wrong. It's my favourite holiday aside from Christmas. The smells of autumn. The colours of the leaves. The trick-or-treaters all in their lil' outfits. And it's not everyday we adults get to play dress up! So I take full advantage, usually for a few nights if I can. Yes, I still go out trick-or-treating. Yes, I know I'm "too old" and whatever the old fogies like to say. I'm a kid at heart and think nobody is ever too old to go all out, put on a crazy getup, and go storm the neighborhood like they're ten again and it's their backyard. What I DO have a problem with is the general female approach to the occasion.
I'm all for female empowerment and equality between the sexes. I get that. I dig it. I'm an avid endorser of human rights, particularly when it comes to combatting gender discrimination and prejudice. Stereotypes infuriate me. That being said, I'd like to also emphasize my distaste for women's modern approaches to embracing their feminist side. It's all wrong. You know what I'm talking about. The incessant female chauvinism. Slutting as if it's in fashion (it might as well be a 'style'). Women that demean themselves physically, visually, to make it seem as if they are in control and strengthened by their confidence. If you ask me, it's quite the opposite. To make oneself a commodity, a product, a piece of meat, it's a weakness; a sure sign for insecurity and gullibility. It doesn't assume any power. All it assumes is the power of sex, and giving into, in particular, the base instinctual drive.
Stooping to the level of men's lust is not gaining women anything. If anything it's setting us back. Feminism was born when women decided they weren't going to be objects anymore. They would no longer be the doormat to aspirations of male domination or what have you. They wanted to push forward until we could all find ourselves in a society that allowed each and every one to live freely, without repression of any kind. In order to do that, efforts were first and foremost focused around female empowerment. However, that notion has gone too far, too long, and too much in the wrong direction.
Nowadays people have distorted the meaning of feminism and what it is to be a feminist. Which is why, typically, if you were to mention feminist ideals in normal conversation, many people cringe and shy away. People have the wrong idea about what it is and should be. Feminism is not about women being better than men. Nor is it about women being men's play things. The two ends of the spectrum are entirely destructive to any progress that has been made. Women like Susan B. Anthony would be disgusted if she could see how modern women carry themselves. And in a time when American society has advanced so much in other ways! Why does it seem that women think ceding to the whims of animalistic sexual tendencies will gain them equal standing? Because abandoning our sense of pride and integrity will make us more respected? Because surrendering ourselves to the lowest stature will make us valued? What a delusion.
Women of the world, wake the fuck up. All of you who think strutting your breasts around like they're candy will get you any real respect, you're living in your denial. You're sacrificing your very dignity and any chances of human development. You look weak. You look desperate. You look pathetic. Whoring yourself out for every ogler on the street doesn't gain you anything. All it does is give you is a false sense of esteem and perverts a cheap boner. And all of you men, who enable it, who promote and go along with it, you're guilty in this as well. Even the most attractive women divulging herself to the world for all to see is unattractive. It's called virtue. It's called modesty. A woman with true confidence is not one that mindlessly complies to aggressive horndog media brainwashing. A real woman with real confidence is smarter than that, and knows how to emphasize her sexuality and self-assurance with poise, without forfeiting her right to be viewed as a human being.
So this holiday season, let's see not another 'sexy' nurse or 'provocative' cop or 'hot' librarian, boobs and vag hanging out all over the place for all to see. That's all bullshit. Let's some fucking real confidence. Let's see some creativity, for crying out loud.
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